This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...

The snake, which Fish and Game described as an "unwanted hitchhiker," is mildly venomous. That species of snake is native to Ecuador. Fish and Game said the snake was not hurt and was rehomed ...

Snake venom can be remarkably diverse in composition and potency, not only between one species and another but also within ...

Bio-Ken Snake farm manager Boniface Momanyi extracts Venom from a green mamba. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard) He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce.